Canvas attaching means for folding chairs



May 22, 1934. H. 'rRoxl-:LL

4 CANVAS ATTACHING MEANS FOR FOLDING CHAIRS Filed NOV. 25, 1931 HHHH "WHHHHHHIH HHIH Patented May 22, 1934 UNITED STATES CANVAS ATTACHING MEANS FOR FOLDING CHAIRS Harry L. Troxell, Wynnewood, Pa.

Application November 25, 1931, Serial No. 577,344

4 Claims.

This invention relates to canvas attaching means, and more particularly to a means for attaching canvas or similar seat-forming coverl ings to folding chairs and the like.

Deck chairs, lawn chairs and the like, both of the rigid and folding variety, often employ as a seat or seat and back-forming means stretched canvas material or some similar fabric. In such i chairs, and particularly in the reclining-back chair where both the seat and back are formed by a continuous strip of material it is often desirable that the material be removed as, for example, When it rains or when the material becomes soiled in use.

, which the fastening means employed will not interfere with or be damaged by laundering the material.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of an attaching method which will not add materially to the cost of attaching the material as compared with the ordinary methods of attaching the same.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawing wherein, for the pm'pose of illustration, I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the method of installing material in position in the cross bar of a chair;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing material as installed and illustrating a slight modification of the method of combining material and fastening means; and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the fastening means as employed in Fig. 2.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 10 designates the cross bar of a chair which, in accordance with my invention, is formed with an elongated slot 11 having at one end an enlargement 12. The material to be connected to this cross bar, which is indicated at 13, has, in accordance with my invention, an eye 14 preferably receiving and having permanently installed therein a flexible element 15 as, for example, a rope, which distends the eye to produce a bead 16. This bead, as illustrated in Fig. 1, can be disposed at an end of the strip of material cr may, as illustrated in Fig. 2, be disposed at a point spaced from the end of the material so that the material produces both a seat and backforming section 17 and a flap 18, this flap serving to cover the cross bar 10 at one side of the slot; while the seat and back-forming portion 1'7 covers the cross bar at the opposite side of the slot. The combined length of the slot and its enlargement 12 is preferably the same as the width of the material so that both the slot and its enlargement are concealed when the material is in position. The enlargement 12 is of sufficient size to pass bead 16; while the slot 1l is of suflicient width to accommodate either the single thickness of material illustrated in Fig. 1, or the double thickness thereof as illustrated in Fig. 3.

In attaching material to a cross bar when employing this construction, it is simply necessary that the bead be passed through the opening 12 and positioned beneath slot 11 after which strain applied to the material 13 will only serve to draw material against the edges of the slot.

Obviously, by a reversal of this process, the material may be removed. Bead 16 being flexible may be laundered with the remainder of the material without any damage thereto. It will, of course, be obvious that if so desired the element 15 may be inserted in the eye 14 after the material is in place on the chair and in event this method of attachment is followed the member l5, may, of course, be of rigid material.

Since the construction herein illustrated is, obviously, capable of considerable modification without in any manner departing from the spirit of my invention, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:

l. In combination with the cross bar of a chair having an elongated slot formed therein, a strip of seat-forming fabric extended through the slot from one side of the cross bar and having an eye disposed at the opposite side of the cross bar and a filling in said eye of a size preventing withdrawal of the eye through the slot, said lling being of flexible material, an end of said slot having an enlargement permitting passage of the eye and its filling.

2. In combination with the cross bar of a chair having an elongated slot formed therein, a strip of seat-forming fabric extended through the slot from one side of the cross bar and having an eye disposed at the opposite side of the cross bar and a filling in said eye of a size preventing withdrawal of the eye through the slot, said eye being disposed at a point spaced from the end of the fabric whereby a flap is formed covering the cross bar at the opposite side of said slot from that covered by the main body of the fabric, said filling being of flexible material an end of said slot having an enlargement permitting passage of the eye and its lling.

3. In combination with the cross bar of a chair having an elongated slot-formed therein, a strip of seat-forming fabric extended through the slot from one side of the cross bar, and a bead on said material engaging the opposite side of the cross bar to prevent withdrawal of the material through the slot, said bead being flexible, the slot having an enlargement at one point of a size permitting passage of the bead.

4. In combination with the cross bar of a chair having an elongated slot formed therein, a strip o` seat-forming fabric extended through the slot from one side of the cross bar, and a bead on said material engaging the opposite Side of the cross bar to prevent withdrawal of the fabric through the slot, said bead being flexible, the slot having an enlargement at one point of a size permitting passage of the bead, said bead being disposed at a point spaced from the end of the material whereby a flap is formed covering the cross bar at the opposite side of said slot from that covered by the main body of the fabric.

HARRY L. TROXELL. 

